Though Allah stated that the punishment for adultery should be 100 lashes (Quran 24:2), Muhammad decided to have an adulteress stoned to death, as we read here: 'Allah's Messenger (may peace he upon him) said: By Him in Whose Hand is my life. I will decide between you according to the Book of Allah. The slave-girl and the goats should be given back, and your son is to be punished with one hundred lashes and exile for one year. And, O Unais (b. Zuhaq al-Aslami), go to this woman in the morning, and if she makes a confession, then stone her. He (the narrator) said: He went to her in the morning and she made a confession. And Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) made pronouncement about her and she was stoned to death.'" (from Sahih Muslim, 17:14209).We know that Muhammad is the role model for the Muslims (see Quran 33:21). Thus it can be no surprise that members of the Islamic State similarly stone an adulteress to death:​

Debate Questions: Allah knows all, including the future. What are the consequences of him not telling Muhammad to refrain from having the adulteress stoned to death, but to instead have the woman lashed? If Allah had not yet given his punishment for adultery decree, why did he not tell Muhammad this decree before the woman was stoned to death?Could Allah have been clearer about what he wanted as punishment for adultery? If Allah had dissuaded Muhammad from stoning the adulteress, would ISIS have had any reason to stone the woman featured in the video above?Do you believe that stoning someone to death for adultery is proper?

To help us answer this question, let us first consider a hadith and then watch a short video. Here is the hadith:Narrated Al-Miqdam ibn Ma’dikarib: Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said, “The martyr receives six good things from Allah: he is forgiven at the first shedding of his blood; he is shown his abode in Paradise; he is preserved from the punishment in the grave; he is kept safe from the greatest terror; he has placed on his head the crown of honour, a ruby of which is better than the world and what it contains; he is married to 72 wives of the maidens with large dark eyes (houris); and is made intercessor for seventy of his relatives.” [Tirmidhi:Hadith number 1067; and Ibn Majah]Now do please watch this video:

So, after reading the hadith and watching the video, our Debate Question is: Could longing to be with the houris compel some Muslim men to strive to become martyrs?

"I have been made victorious through terror" ((Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52, Number 220). Can we therefore be surprised when certain Muslims wish to emulate Muhammad, to wage jihad against disbelievers, and thus choose to become Islamic State terrorists?Debate Question: Was Muhammad himself actually a terrorist?"The dictionary definition of terrorism is “the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear." Sadly, we are living in an age that we do not need to consult a dictionary to learn the meaning of terrorism. Even our children know about it and are affected by it." "Islamic terrorism, however, did not start in 9/11 of 2001, nor did it start with the Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979. Islamic terrorism has its origin in the sayings and examples set by Muhammad.""In the last ten years of his life, after Muhammad migrated to Medina , he launched no less than 78 raids called qazwa (raid, ambush, sudden attack). Some of these qazwas involved the assassination of one opponent by one or a group of volunteers, and others were carried out by hundreds or thousands of warriors. Nonetheless a common characteristic of all Muhammad’s incursions was that they were done without notice. The enemy was caught off guard without being given the chance to prepare himself or be armed. As such all Muhammad’s victims were civilians." [Read more at: http://www.faithfreedom.org/challenge/terrorist.htm ]

From a recent article reported by CNN we read:"Dozens of Yazidi women enslaved by ISIS moved from Mosul, group says"

"Dozens of Yazidi women captured and enslaved by ISIS in 2014 have been moved from the Iraqi city of Mosul to Syria, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights."

"The monitoring group and US military officials have said ISIS militants are fleeing Mosul and heading for Raqqa, Syria, the de facto capital of ISIS, as Iraqi-led forces push to free the key Iraqi city from the terror group."

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Debate Question: Muhammad owned female slaves (Quran 33:50) and Allah permits Muslim men to have sex with female slaves (Quran 70:29-30). If Muhammad and Allah had forbade both slavery and intercourse with someone other than one's wife, would the Islamic State be keeping sex slaves today?

In a thought-provoking article, The Quran's deadly role in inspiring Belgian slaughter ( Link: The Quran's deadly role in inspiring Belgian slaughter ) Nabeel Qureshi observes that the last major chapter of the Quran, chapter 9, is the most violent chapter in the entire text. Due to the fact that Muhammad acknowledged that later verses in the Quran can abrogate earlier verses, it is reasonable to conclude that Chapter 9's verses of violence abrogate any earlier verses of reconciliation.Nabeel Qureshi writes:

Surah 9 is a command to disavow all treaties with polytheists and to subjugate Jews and Christians (9.29) so that Islam may “prevail over all religions” (9.33). It is fair to wonder whether any non-Muslims in the world are immune from being attacked, subdued or assimilated under this command. Muslims must fight, according to this final chapter of the Quran, and if they do not, then their faith is called into question and they are counted among the hypocrites (9.44-45). If they do fight, they are promised one of two rewards, either spoils of war or heaven through martyrdom. Allah has made a bargain with the mujahid who obeys: Kill or be killed in battle, and paradise awaits (9.111).

Turning our attention to the hadiths, they too can favor violence, as we see here:

Sahih al-Bukhari 2787—Allah guarantees that He will admit the Mujahid in His Case into Paradise if he is killed, otherwise He will return him to his home safely with rewards and war booty.”

Sahih al-Bukhari 2796—Narrated Anas: The Prophet said, “A single endeavor (of fighting) in Allah’s cause in the afternoon or in the forenoon is better than all the world and whatever is in it.”

Sahih al-Bukhari 2797—Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet said, . . . “By Him in Whose Hands my soul is! I would love to be martyred in Allah’s Cause and then come back to life and then get martyred, and then come back to life again and then get martyred and then come back to life again and then get martyred.”

Debate Questions: Do you want to live in a world where Islam "prevails over all other religions"?Is the Islamic State not taking "spoils of war," when it takes over oil fields to thereby enrich itself through selling oil, and when it takes captive women as sex slaves?Are the fighters of ISIS inspired by the paradise the Quran promises martyrs?

The renowned author of Among the Believers and Beyond Belief asserts in his fine essay (link) some noteworthy contentions, some of which can be our Questions for Debate:"So what impels the tiny minority of young men and women from immigrant communities to volunteer themselves to ‘jihad’ and to almost certain self-destruction, or young women to abscond from their families and from European reality to become jihadi brides?""It was an article of 6th and 7th Century Arab faith that everything before it was wrong, heretical," writes Mr. Naipaul. "There was no room for the pre-Islamic past." Can this explain to some notable degree the strong desire the Islamic State has to destroy ancient cultural antiquities and artifacts?

It is not permissible for the owner of a female captive to have sexual intercourse with her until after she has had menstrual cycle and becomes clean.

If she does not menstruate and is pregnant, he is not allowed to have sexual intercourse with her until after she has given birth.

It is not permissible to cause her to abort if she is pregnant.

If the owner of a female captive releases her, only he can have sexual intercourse with her and he cannot allow someone else to have sexual intercourse with her.

If the owner of a female captive, who has a daughter suitable for sexual intercourse, has sexual relations with the latter, he is not permitted to have sexual intercourse with her mother and she is permanently off limits to him. Should he have sexual intercourse with her mother then he is not permitted to have sexual intercourse with her daughter and she is to be off-limits to him.

The owner of two sisters is not allowed to have sexual intercourse with both of them; rather he may only have sexual intercourse with just one. The other sister is to be had by him, if he were to relinquish ownership of the first sister by selling her, giving her away or releasing her

If the female captive is owned by a father, his son cannot have sexual intercourse with her and vice-versa. Moreover, sexual intercourse with his wife's female captive is also not permissible

If a father had sexual intercourse with his female captive then gave her away or sold her to his son, he is no longer permitted to have sexual intercourse with her

If the female captive becomes pregnant by her owner, he cannot sell her and she is released after his death

If the owner releases his female captive then he is not permitted to have sexual intercourse with her afterwards because she has become free and is no longer his property

If two or more individuals are involved in purchasing a female captive, none of them are permitted to have sex with her because she is part of a joint ownership

It is not permissible to have intercouse with a female captive during her menstrual cycle

It is not permissible top have anal sex with a female captive

The owner of a female captive should show compassion towards her, be kind to her, not humiliate her and not assign her work she is unable to perform

The owner of a female captive should not sell her to an individual whom he knows will treat her badly or do unto her what Allah has forbidden

First the male captives are separated from the women, and then killed off. Then the women are taken as sex slaves.This ancient manner of dealing with captives in Islam goes back to the time of Muhammad. Believing that Muhammad could do no wrong, the members of the Islamic State have revived this practice. That having sex with slaves is permissible in Islam is noted by members of the Islamic State. In the Quran 70:29-30, we read that a good Muslim is among "those who guard their chastity,except with their wives and the captives whom their right hands possess, for then they are not to be blamed." In the video below, we observe at the 34-second mark an Islamic State member reciting verse 70:30: "except with their wives and the captives whom their right hands possess, for then they are not to be blamed."

Islamic State finds justification in Quran (70:29-30 & 23:5-6) for staying chaste "except with their wives & the captives whom their right hands possess."